I’ve lived in Winnipeg my whole life. It’s an unassuming, middle-of-the-continent kind of place that sometimes yearns for greatness — which is why it suits me, I guess.

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Every once in a while, you read a book that rocks your world. Not all good novels have to do that, of course. But I was never quite the same after I read these books, and own pretty much everything their authors have written.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

Continental Drift, Russell Banks

Black Robe, Brian Moore

Black Narcissus, Rumer Godden

The Blue Lenses, Daphne du Maurier

Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler

The Progress of Love, Alice Munro

The Bridge on the Drina, Ivo Andric

Collected Stories, Katherine Mansfield

Kiss of the Spider Woman, Manuel Puig

The Road, Cormac McCarthy

Beijing Coma, Ma Jian

The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula le Guin

The Brothers Karamazov, Doystoyevsky

Solaris, Stanislaw Lem

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers

Some of these non-fiction works I just happened upon, and some were research. But all ended up shaping how I see the world, and how I write about it.

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Now and then it comes on them that they have a sudden urgent need to be held, to curl up beside us, as if they understand that very soon it won’t be so natural, it will be something that they can yearn for but may not find for a long while.